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Archives and Manuscripts
Alphabetical list of archives and manuscripts
This list is intended to give a brief overview of all the archive collections currently held in Special Collections. For full details please search by MS No. at the Online Archives Catalogue.
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| Name | Manuscript Number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sail | MS 212 | Lawrence Sail, poet, critic, translator: literary papers, 1974-2002 |
| Salter | MS 228 | Florence and Bertha Salter, soprano and contralto singers originally from North Devon, (London debut made 1895): programmes and publicity brochures, 1896-1917 |
| Schnitzler | MS 214 | Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Austrian playwright and novelist: Schnitzler Presscuttings Archive containing presscuttings relating to his own writings, with illustrations, cartoons, photographs, playbills and programmes, 1891-1937 |
| Scott | MS 17 | Sir William Scott (1745-1836), Lord Stowell, judge, MP: Speech on presenting Sir W Grant to the University of Oxford for the degree of DCL, 1820 |
| Shebbeare | MS 293 | John Shebbeare, Secretary of Ministry of Interior Affairs, Oman: personal papers and photograph album, c 1970 |
| Simms | MS 18 | Simms family: correspondence of the Revd Edward Simms (c 1803-1899), clergyman, poet and translator of Homer, and of his daughter, M N Simms, 1832-1898 |
| Simms | MS 204 | Revd Edward Simms (c 1803-1899), clergyman, poet and translator of Homer: photocopy of 1890 printed poem on Sir Walter Scott |
| Somerfield | MS 326 | Somerfield supermarket and related organisations: papers |
| South Brent | MS 136 | South Brent Women's Institute: scrapbook, 1965 |
| South Tawton | MS 180 | South Tawton Photographic Archive: copies of original photographs held at South Tawton Photograph Archive, 1980s |
| Spence | MS 22 | Arthur Yates (fl 1956-57): letters from Margaret Spence relating to her biography of Ruskin, 1956-1957 |
| Spence | MS 189 | Copies of drawings of University buildings (physics and chemistry) by Basil Spence (1907-1976), architect, 1958 |
| Starcross | MS 118/1 | Royal Western Counties Institution, Starcross, 1862-c 1990 (now at the Devon Record Office) |
| Starcross | MS 118/2 | Digby and Wonford House Hospitals League of Friends, 1955-1988 (now at the Devon Record Office) |
| Starcross | MS 118/3 | Newcourt House (School of Nursing), 1944-1949 (now at the Devon Record Office) |
| Starcross | MS 118/4 | Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, 1930s-1960s (now at the Devon Record Office) |
| Starcross | MS 118/5 | West of England Eye Infirmary, 1960s-1974 (now at the Devon Record Office) |
| Stirling | MS 3 | D M Stirling (fl 1830-1838), topographical writer on Devon: papers on Uplyme etc, c 1838 |
| St. Luke's | MS 205 | Victor Charles Fox, student at St. Luke's College 1929-1931: memorabilia relating to his time as a student at St. Luke's, including postcards and standard-issue crockery, 1929-1931 |
| Stockdale | MS 19 | Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale (1786-1858), antiquary: manuscript notes towards a history of Devon (on loan to Devon and Exeter Institution), 1828-1858 |
| Stothard | MS 224 | One volume of extracted engravings from works of English literature 18-19th c, entitled 'Stothard's Engravings', by the artist and engraver Thomas Stothard |
| Strickland | MS 101 | Margot Strickland (b 1927), biographer: research papers for an autobiography of the Cornish pianist Moura Lympany (b 1916), 1991-1992 |
| Syon | MS 262 | Syon Abbey, Devon: collection of medieval and renaissance (many illuminated) theological and music manuscripts, 15th-17th c |
| Syon | MS 265 | Syon Abbey (Bridgettine order, South Brent, Devon): papers relating to reading habits and book collections of nuns, 20th c |
